Post originally by Dan Davenport at 2004-02-16 12:26:01
Converted from Phorums BB System

Wulf Corbett wrote:
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<b><i>If you lose the roll, you lose the ammount you bid. In all cases, the active participant decides the bid that one or the other loses. When you start a contest, you cannot be certain what your opponent's skill and AP are, so a careful, low, bid may be prudent. Once AP have been won or lost, you can get a good measure of the opposition. If you have no clear superiority, don't bid enough to make yourself lose outright if you lost the action.</i></b>
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(Sorry -- I must be dense today.

It sounds like the first two sentences contradict each other slightly, though. The first says that you lose the amount you bid, but the second sounds as though the other guy gets to decide whether you lose your bid or his bid.